Trump's Business Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, while his administration was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the identical, a report published recently claimed.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the business aimed to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for temporary work visas covering workers including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record filed by the organization, and increased from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had attempted to hire over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the business sought to hire over 560 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, the former president was questioned by some in the GOP this period for comments justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to spend $10bn to build a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers lower the pay of US workers.
The White House declined a request for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
